[arch-dev-public] Drop cronie and logrotate from base?

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Tue Apr 1 15:43:46 EDT 2014


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Tue 01, April 20:48:16 Florian Pritz wrote:
>> Moving to extra sounds good.
>
> +1

As Gaetan already agreed: +1 from me too.

>> Move it to extra and make it a dep of everything that logs to /var/log
>> by default, optdep for stuff that can be configured to log there. (both
>> assume that the package actually has a logrotate config ofc)
>
> Is not needed for packages that log to /var/log (e.g. pacman), but for
> packages that install a logrotate.d script (42 at the moment).

Yup, this seems good

> I'm not sure if
> this should be a dep or optdep though.

If logging to /var/log is not configurable I'd make it a dep, if it is
I'd make it an optdep...

-t


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